A FIRS staff member identified as Felix Akeze is reportedly holding his wife and children hostage with a gun at their residence in Chevron Drive, Lekki, Lagos.
According to the report, the woman, who is from Aku in Igbo Etiti LGA, Enugu state, alerted one of her brothers through the phone early this morning and told him that her husband asked her to pay all the money he has spent so far on herself and their children, or else he would kill all of them.
It was gathered that security men at the estate who have arrived at the house at No. 5b, Toyosi Adetoro street, together with some policemen from Ajah division, are making frantic efforts to penetrate into the compound and rescue the victims.
They succeeded in getting inside the compound and diffused the situation. His wife and children have been rescued
The wife reportedly disclosed that they have been held hostage for five days by her hubby.
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